Monday, December 27, 2010

Here are seven Birthday cards with a free floating tag that I started putting up under the challenges section of my website a long time ago but never finished and put online until today. The background for them is under the challenges section which you can get to by clicking here or you click on the card for the instruction sheet and jump over from there.

I've been reorganizing the site a bit and have put up a new subject based that should make it easier to find stuff with the web site at 143 card images and growing. Stop by and check it out and let me know what you think.

Friday, December 24, 2010

Here are three new cards I made to give away as gifts this year to relatives who don't make cards but do send them out on a regular basis. The little birdies are going to my grandmother, since a little birdie used to always tell her stuff when I was little. The cupcake on the birthday card is colored with Copic marker. I showed them to someone and they didn't like it because they thought it was a printed image that had just been cut out and mounted so I guess that was a compliment? Either way I now feel the need to point that its a hand color cupcake image.

These were actually made with cling mount studio g clear sets that Michaels had on an endcap for something like one or two dollars a set earlier this year and the Recollections paper Michaels sells.

As usual, just click on the image if you want to see the instructions sheet on my website.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Just 10 more days until Christmas! Are your Christmas cards made yet? Are they mailed? If not here's an idea for some quick cards - use stickers for your main image. I found a stack of stickers I had brought a few years back on sale for just this purpose and combined one of the images on the sheets with one of the latest Tim Holtz dies, some stickles and some inked white paper. It took a while to come up with the design but once I had that making them went fairly quickly for a homemade card. The real key to this approach is to find an affordably priced sticker sheet with a lot of images that appeal to you so you can get many cards per sticker sheet.

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This blog exists so we can exchange homemade card ideas. Please include labels when you post! Here are a few ideas, but feel free to make up your own: Christmas, birthday, stamps, eyelets, stickers, tri-fold, brads, ribbon, simple, etc.Leave a comment with your email if you'd like to be a contributor to this blog!

I wanted to share my blog "creation story." I was great at creating and stashing cards away, but my friends made fun of my hoarding. I never sent the cards! I was afraid that I could never recreate the hard-earned ideas. I began photographing cards and eventually created this blog, which allows all of us to have a record of what we have created. The title of the blog applies to me and probably no one else who posts on here...but as much as I've tried to come up with a new title, this one stuck. I'm so grateful to all of you for contributing and following this blog!!

A little about me: I'm a stay-at-home mom of 3 busy kids, wife of a soon-to-be professor, active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, puzzle-doer, avid reader, compulsive chocolate eater, Super Nintendo queen, and internet junkie. My name is Julie Schonlau.